just act like you know what you are doing
Backcountry explorers, today. LB and I set off in search of the deep powdry stuff and found it at the far right edge of the map.
ski boundry area,
LB killing it down the trails under the gondola (we rode it back up the mtn three times!),
and me spraying through a little drift on a ridge.
The number of my flight from ORD to JAC is prime: 557
25″ of new snow has fallen on the mountain there in the last 72 hours. dee-licious. Or, as Lil Bro likes to say, FRESHIES!!
This is a method for cleaning wax spilled onto hard surfaces. These photos demonstrate cleaning ski wax / snowboard wax, but the same method works with candle wax (it just requires a little less heat). Note, I don’t think this works to get wax out of carpet.
Things got a little crazy during the snowboard wax application, wax got on the hardwood floor. Mom’s gonna be pissed.
Lay a paper towel over the wax
Using a low-ish (I used 3 - 4.5) setting, iron the paper towel. Try to keep the paper towel from moving. If you have very large blobs, you will see discolorations through the paper towel. Keep doing this until you are quite sure that even the hardest and largest blobs have sufficiently melted.
You can fold the towel and use the back side too, if it isn’t too soaked.
Yay, the wax is gone. Now we can finish cleaning up this project, take the wax we didn’t spill and hit the hill.See Also:
Filed under: snowboardLots in here, but I can’t really stop long enough to get a window open to write it down in.
For some reason my head tells me that a laptop mac will help solve this. But I know it to be a lie: I need to prove the corp. vmware image runs in the osx version of vmware and migrate to the new server first.
I want an easy widget to include a “song of the day” via. hopefully a stream.
Anyway, I was repairing the scars on my snowboard and thinking about it and here are a few of those:
It somehow seemed to relate to everything else in my head at the time.
Filed under: mac, snowboard, weblogsnowboard
snowboard boots
money, pass, identification
directions
poly underwear
poly sock liners
poly undershirt
long johns
wooly socks
warm pants
sweater
jacket
kneepads
wrist guards
snowpants
overcoat
gloves
mittens
neckwarmer
hat
sunglasses
goggles
sunscreen
lip balm
handwarmers
tissues
water bottle (small, crushable)
snacks
cellphone, battery, headset
camera, battery
board tools
watch
notebook
pen
driving shoes
dry socks
dry pants
dry shirt
snacks
cellphone charger
car, gas, keys
music
Although nice weather had been prevously forecast, it was very cold on the drive up there. Fortunately, with some coaxing the lady at the Comfort Inn desk allowed us to check into the room very early. This made suiting up for the cold a whole lot easier.
We could see our hotel from the lift, and the lift from our hotel
So we rented some blades and got our steeply discounted lift tickets (thanks to the “Wisp Snow Play” pass I had picked up at East Coast Board Company) and waddled off to the bunny slopes!
The snowboarding/snowblading itself wasn’t terribly good or bad. The slopes/lifts were relatively empty owing to the fact that it was a weekday. The cold didn’t seem to bother us too badly although a few “hot pockets” handwarmers were utilized throughout the day. We took a break about two for some chili cheese fries to celebrate charlie hustle’s last day of being 23.
From the Snowboard FAQ:
* Do I need to wax my new board?
The guy at the Ski Chalet Service depot says a brand new board needs $12 hand wax to last longer, the $8 belt wax is apparrently inferior in his opinion. I should expect to leave my board with them for a day or two. I forgot to ask what day of the week would be best to bring it in.
today i registered for nanog30. February is the right time of year to see Miami, says me.
Filed under: snowboardI bought a snowboard deck off ebay yesterday. I’m psyched. I’ve never seen one like it before: a totally blank deck ripe for stickering. 160 cm, made by Gen-X, and i got it for a super bargain.
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Today it stayed below freezing most of the day, I expect snowmaking has begun in earnest at higher elevations. Mr. Hustle’s latest script gives us a status:
Filed under: adventures, snowboard
snow report
